58 rules for beautiful UI design: interesting rules, and I really like that “ELEGANCE” acronym, but, I always try to think critically when anyone brings some “design rules”.
For example:
“good design is as little design as possible”: while simplicity works for some B2C interfaces, oversimplification can lead to a lot of issues, especially in complex enterprise products, for expert users.
Years ago I was discussing a "Human Flourishing Design Guide" and thinking of launching a Flourishment Initiative within which a periodic table of patterns would shape up.
Right now I'm involved with #SocialCoding movement and reviving the field of Social experience design or #SX for the #SocialWeb. That periodic table is still a very nice way to present a pattern library.
I'd like to give a heads-up to #SocialCoding movement where I'm involved and plan to revive the notion of #SX or Social experience design, esp. for the #SocialWeb.
So much chatter on #Fediverse is either deeply technical or app-specific. The field of SX may offer a more holistic and inclusive perspective, focus on methods, guidance and best-practices.
@leroy you are not wrong. What @evan, @cwebber, et al. realized was that at their core, all social networking software follows nearly identical tenets. People follow other people, people like things, people respond to things with comments, etc.
At the end of the day, we're looking at different implementations to access the same #SocialWeb, different but amazing all in their own way.
@leroy@multiverseofbadness yeah the idea is there'd be two-way communication between the local #nodebb instance and the #socialweb. Any less and it wouldn't be what I envision for my implementation 🙂
Also thanks for the kind words about the design. It took up much of our time and was released last year for our v3 of NodeBB... which is also when I discovered #Mastodon 😁
Thinking out loud: part of my thinking in how I am approaching #FeatherPub is what I started thinking of as the "boids model" of federated software development.
"But Hrefna, I sure as hell didn't hear about the 'boids model' in my SE classes"
Yes, this is just kind of my own colloquial thinking about it.
For those who are unaware, boids is an artificial life simulator based around the flocking behavior of birds. The idea is that we can simulate general flocking with a few basic rules.
Note that there's a whole interesting community of folks into #DDD#CQRS and #EventSourcing who moved away from Xitter onto the Fediverse.
I was just followed by @oskardudycz who is among those, maybe having seen this discussion?
What I would be very interested about is to get some expert opinions on how we might scale these architecture patterns and EDA and map it to our #SocialWeb.
A social web of interconnected components & services would be fabulous. #AppFreeComputing
In my post, I mention two words that I feel have important definitions— #GreenSpaces and #SocialWeb.
I'm still learning what those terms mean as defined by @hrheingold and I kinda want to evangelize them? I don't know what that means yet, but the urge is there.
Anyway, I wrote about why it feels like all the cool websites have disappeared. The good news is, there's a whole other web outside #Threads and #Instagram. And it's really cool.
Threads: I'm in a wrong party and don't know what to say. I feel awkward, everyone is so happy with their gym selfies. Everyone asking endless questions and asking things from the algorithm. Lots of people use it like Instagram, every post is a selfie with a meaningless caption. Some are copy-pasting the same sentence over and over again for each line. Endless quote-post memes... What the fuck is this shit I don't even...
Bluesky: A Twitter clone, but still very barebones. Notifications are still not working, there are no hashtags and I don't find any relevant content to me in any of the feeds. It's mostly Facebook-like what's up in life, furry scene and AI photos. No news, no tech/web scene, no nothing. Not to mention it's still invite-only and won't support ActivityPub (yeah I know the reasoning behind that but for me it's mostly bullshit, I look forward to trying bridgy fed).
Mastodon and the Fediverse: Here I'm at home on my own server. Most content, most features. A community is friendly but has also lots of nitpicking, some angry dudes. Still the most safest, most healthy and most customized, but somehow the most hated network elsewhere. "Too techie", they say. "Too difficult", they say. "No algorithm", they say.
Nostr: Kinda promising, but way too obscure, strange and even techier than Mastodon. Too much crypto shit.
Well, that's that. Sometimes I feel like Internet is ruined. But I believe in the open social web movement and I want to see this grow.
In no other place I can write a status update as freely as this, as long as this or with a low bar as this. I LIKE this 100%. The same can't be said in those other places I'm experimenting with out of curiosity. There I'm the weird kid. Here I feel like myself.
Once again on the commercial socia media platforms I’m seeing opinions stating that with the algorithmic social medias like Threads we can’t follow the news ans events of the world properly and any ”old Twitter-like” social channel no longer exist. While I agree with the first, I completely disagree with the latter. The social web movement in the Fediverse is just that. And this is just a beginning.
"Meta's fediverses", federating with Meta to allow communications, potentially using services from Meta such as automated moderation or ad targeting, and potentially harvesting data on Meta's behalf.
"free fediverses" that reject Meta – and surveillance capitalism more generally
The free fediverses have a lot of advantages over Meta and Meta's fediverses, some of which will be very hard to counter, and clearly have enough critical mass that they'll be just fine.
Here's a set of strategies for the free fediverses to provide a viable alternative to surveillance capitalism. They build on the strengths of today's fediverse at its best – including natural advantages the free fediverses have that Threads and Meta's fediverses will having a very hard time countering – but also are hopefully candid about weaknesses that need to be addressed. It's a long list, so I'll be spreading out over multiple posts; this post currently goes into detail on the first two.
Opposition to Meta and surveillance capitalism is an appealing position. Highlight it!
Focus on consent (including consent-based federation), privacy, and safety
Emphasize "networked communities"
Support concentric federations of instances and communities
Consider "transitively defederating" Meta's fediverses (as well as defederating Threads)
Consider working with people and instances in Meta's fediverses (and Bluesky, Dreamwidth, and other social networks) whose goals and values align with the free fediverses'
Build a sustainable ecosystem
Prepare for Meta's (and their allies') attempts to paint the free fediverses in a bad light
Reduce the dependency on Mastodon
Prioritize accessibility, which is a huge opportunity
Commit to anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, and pro-LGBTQIA2S+ principles, policies, practices, and norms for the free fediverses
A really cool thing about the #fediverse (or #socialweb) is that there's so much still to codify and address.
Every so often a talking point about some protocol weakness is rehashed and debated — account portability, eventual consistency, inter-instance fueds, etc., and it really reminds me of when the #internet was much younger, and there were so many more significant and novel things to address. The social web and #activitypub is still so much more nascent than people give it credit for.
Some people prefer to talk about the "social web" instead of the "fediverse".
If you do, do you just prefer one term over another, or do you think "social web" could emcompass more functionality than what today's fediverse can do?
Other than that, I also started to think of #SocialWeb as the encompassing concept, and #Fediverse as the current most popular instance of it.
This with "Social" relating to truly social, but also to the full range of technologies to support truly social experiences online. Those are much broader than only AS/AP which we tend to think of first when hearing Fediverse.
But the tech is just implementation detail, the #Peopleverse is what is collectively built.
This is probably the most exciting time to be an internet person, possibly since the 'net first blinked on.
How we experience the web is undergoing seismic shifts —#AI, #XR, and the #SocialWeb will make for increasingly personal and engaging experiences, softening the borders between our digital and physical worlds.
I like & get value from Goodreads, and have many connections there that I value. I'm also a fan of the #SocialWeb / #fediverse and believe in open protocols and data portability. I've optimistically setup a #BookWyrm account here: https://sfba.club/user/dcreemer . Reading is visible to followers only for now.
Looks like the #threadiverse has been widely used by the #Lemmy and #Kbin communities for years, but now it's slowly being co-opted (including by #Meta staff) to refer to the #federation of #Threads.
I predict a complete takeover of the #hashtag, and term in general, before the end of 2024.
"This is the same opportunity in front of the social media landscape right now: a rare chance to unbundle the internet, to pull apart an existing system and rebuild it, piece by piece, in vastly better ways. If we do this correctly — if the next phase of how we congregate and communicate online is built for humans and not advertisers — there won’t be a new titanic company to rival Meta or a platform with eye-poppingly huge numbers like Facebook."
"You could build a news reader that only includes posts with links to news sites and automatically loads those links in a nice reading interface. You could build a content moderation tool that any fediverse app could use to filter and manage content on their platform. You could build the perfect algorithm that only up-ranks shitposts and good jokes, and license that algorithm to any app that wants... 'Epic Posts Only'..."
The target audience is Bloomberg's readership which is very much the business community, not the techie crowd. So the author uses kid gloves to gently guide the reader through technical terms like "protocol".
Just listened to the great talk about Mastodon and the Social Web by @mike and @Gargron at https://flipboard.video/w/cTBu4HusskGTuPBahqm6WY. I like their take on Threads and what it means to use an open protocol. It’s the latest episode of the new podcast Dot Social, and I look forward to the other episodes ⚡️🎧
And yes, it’s a great idea to call it Social Web instead of Fediverse 🤩
Today I heard that the "Fediverse" should be called the "Social Web" instead and.... OMG, I love this.
As cute and original and all "Fediverse" is, if it wants to become mainstream and instantly make sense to everyone and anyone, "Social Web" is such a better name.
What do you think? Personally, I guess that's it, I'm done saying Fediverse... It'll be difficult, maybe I need a transition period.
I've listend to 3 of the 4 available episodes of Dot Social podcast.
Very interesting podcast if your interested in the history and possible future of the Fediverse.
"Learn about the Internet’s next wave on the open social web and what it will unlock for how we connect, communicate, and innovate online. Hosted by Flipboard CEO Mike McCue."
Should be available in all the places that podcasts are available.